Barack Obama Quotes
My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
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Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
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I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
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As president, I have the right to call a referendum based on a law that the Catalan parliament has approved.
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President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.
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In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
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I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.
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I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
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Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
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Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over.
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To say more, is to say less.
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
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The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
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'NewsHour' is very interested in poetry, but they're also interested in not just that something's cute to add on at the end of their programming, but something that actually is integrated into the news.
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It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.
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Happy Birthday, Mr Presidenttttt
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Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.
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I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.
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I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.
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My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
